Role of Reason in Religion: A Study of Henry Mansel

Henry Longueville Mansel published his Bampton Lectures in 1858, twenty­ seven years after Hegel''s death and twelve years before the publication of Ritschl''s Rechtfertigung und Versoehnung. The timing is significant. As a sweeping critique of liberalism, frequently symbolized by the work of Hegel, the lectures react to the slow but inexorable permeation of English religious thought by German way...